

These actions are not only objectionable and offensive, but also medically and culturally dangerous.Ī few disclosures. Malone is one of two recent JRE guests who has compared pandemic policies to the Holocaust. Many of these statements have already been discredited. Malone used the JRE platform to further promote numerous baseless claims, including several falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines and an unfounded theory that societal leaders have “hypnotized” the public. Robert Malone, who was suspended from Twitter for spreading misinformation about COVID-19.

He has discouraged vaccination in young people and children, incorrectly claimed that mRNA vaccines are “gene therapy,” promoted off-label use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 (contrary to FDA warnings ), and spread a number of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Joe Rogan has repeatedly spread misleading and false claims on his podcast, provoking distrust in science and medicine. You can read a letter signed by doctors and other health-care professionals that outlines their complaints about JRE. We don’t argue any more, we cover our ears and make noises. The fact that any controversial positions invites a stampede of cancellations shows how dispirited political debate has become in America. If critics can’t challenge Rogan on the substance of his claims on COVID and climate change in a forthright debate, shame on them.
